Jan. 4th-8th
Hello Grade 1 Families, Thank you so much to all of you who joined us online last week. We enjoyed seeing your wonderful faces! Huge thank you to all the parents who worked at home with their kiddos as well. You are heroes! Last week in Literacy we reviewed our n o and p sounds, as well as learned about the "op" word family. This includes words such as, hop, mop, top and lop! During Math we worked on our addition sentences using our favourite ice creams! Ms. McGill's class learned about the "Make 10" strategy, where you start with a number, such as 5 and determine how many more you need to make 10! Ms. Secord's class worked on making groups of 10, by finding objects around their houses. An important learning intention in Grade 1 right now is, "I can skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s from 0-100." Both classes practice this regularly, working with objects, pictures, and numbers. Last week, we used a hundred chart to identify what number comes n